SYSTEM COMMUNICATION IN MULTICENTRE WORLD (WHAT LUHMANN SYSTEMS THEORY DECLARES) (Systemova komunikace v multicentrickem svete (O cem vypovida Luhmannova systemova teorie))

• Authors: Subrt Jiri , Pincova Barbora
• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the problems of communication as they are analyzed in the framework of the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann. For Luhmann, modern society is functionally differentiated society, i.e. it is composed of heterogeneous but equal parts which are relatively independent in nature and which are denoted as partial social systems, i.e. sub-systems. The condition necessary for the existence of social systems is communication, and to ensure this, the systems create social mechanisms - the media- whose purpose is to stabilize the communication processes. In social development, there have been differentiated media sub-systems communications, which Luhmann regards as symbolically generalized media. Luhmann's analysis presents contemporary society as a whole differentiated into functionally dependent yet autonomous sub-systems that constitute neighbouring worlds for each other. On the basis of its observations of society, each sub-system generates its own image and thus instead of a centrally conceived world a multicentre world emerges.

Keywords

EN

COMMUNICATION; MEDIA; SOCIAL SYSTEM; SUB-SYSTEMS; SYSTEM THEORY

Discipline

• MEDIA_&_COMMUNICATION: MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

• Publisher: Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda
• Journal: Communication Today
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 6-18
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Subrt Jiri

author

Pincova Barbora

• doc. PhDr. Jiri Subrt, CSc. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta humanitnich studii, Pracoviste Historicka sociologie, U Krize 8, 158 00 Praha 5, Ceska Republica

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA09946